you're right, I only copied the file from the core to the md.As I stated before, the pdbedit threw me off with an error and that is the only thing I have tried so far.Since sambahelper is created via a script, and there is obviously a problem with the passworddatabase, maybe I should wait for a new image to try, or is it possible to run the script in question manually?

Out of my depth here, I'm afraid. As mentioned in my pm to you, I wouldn't go further down this route unless you really feel your installation is hosed and you are about to re-install... then you can afford to mess a few things up but it will be really a shot in the dark. Since you've done nothing untoward and seem to be having samba errors (as reported in the samba log) I still think your media not showing is to do with the statusradar/samba connection thing but I could be way off.

so far nothing. l3mce offered a modified radar script, but that didn't help so far.Right now I'm just hoping that I'm either the only one with a borked install, so a new image would be reasonable, or that there are more with this problem and the devs will find good cause to take a closer look.